Ultimate GoPRO Surf Hero Cam Test – Camera Board Surfing Australia
Posted by James on August 26, 2010 · 25 Comments
I bought a small mounted camera for my board…. check it out it’s fun! Most of this video is shot in front of my house, gotta love surfing at home 😉 Thanx to german ben for the South Point Bonga Perkins 8’0” it’s a mean piece of board…. Thanx to Kim, Stew and Rob for the amazing tunes, check their band out www.deadlettercircus.com Get a GoPRO cam in Australia click here www.boardshop.com.au Here’s the REAL review of the GoPro Hero Surf Cam – DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE!!!!! NOTE: Before you comment on my review and try to spiel me some laymen home movie video editing theories you may have, please know that I have been a professional video producer/cameraman/editor for nearly 20 years and have THOROUGHLY reviewed my own findings, and have received some useless ‘generic faq’ replies from GoPRO in relation to my findings to know that someone is not telling everyone everything. They know the flaws and all I hope is that the new HD version (thanks oldbeatupbastard for the tip) has rectified these issues because it’s an exciting product. The new HD one will supposedly have 1080HD, up to 60fps on 720p, and can handle up to 32gb cards. Also slightly bigger (deeper) in size, but has a new inbuilt lithium rechargebable battery that gives much better performance than AAA batteries. Sounds enticing?? I reckon it does, the new one will also record in Quicktime H264 format replacing the old MotionJPEG format and hopefully eliminating the frame rate reproduction problems. Let’s hope so …
@jhamil123123 um maybe because most of the waves are 1 to 2 feet?
you crouch really low but for some reason you keep getting hit in the head by the lip. Is this at the Gold Coast?
you crouch really low but for some reason you keep getting hit in the head by the lip. Is this at the Goldy?
you crouch really low but for some reason you keep getting hit in the ehad by the lip. Is this at the Goldy?
@pukeitup yeah idk some sufers told me thats another name for it
@owmygawd12 def lol
@DjInglorious board wax, by rubbing the wax on the deck of your board it becomes very sticky and you don’t slide off… Interesting choice of words to describe surfing, “waterboard”? I have never ever heard anyone refer to it like that lol
@tanthour thanx mate
@JFlor1989 this is the SD version of the cam, the HD one is way way better…
@calakoyo1 this is th SD version of the cam, the HD one is way way better…
lol
@DjInglorious Ever heard of Board wax?
@R1V3RS1D3B0YZ That could just be your computer thats laggy. 🙁
i dont waterboard but how dont u slide of i know it has this little grip but is it good enough?
to cool man, looks amazing, especially the underwater shots
to bad i live in canada and there is really this amazing near where i live
this the hd version or no? there is a hugeeee price difference but dont look differnt
is this the HD? of no hd?
my surf hero i just got today is not cool…… idk if its messed up i doubt it but its really slow and laggy when i try to watch the vid!!! it sucks! :((
pump the DLC boys. mad footage too, gonna buy one of those suckers for my next indo trip
is the suction cup thing that comes with them good enough in the surf or is it likely to come off on a wipeout? Gonna buy one pretty soon I think!
I just got my HD hero. this thing is amazing in every way shape and form. also, it has a 4:3 super wide and tall setting, perfect for surfing. I don’t surf though, I use it more for motorcycle riding.
nah it’s easy to reverse the orientation, you needn’t remove anything just remove the mount bolt, reverse the cam and re attach the bolt.
hey i just ordered this and was wondering if you can switch it from facing you, to facing outward, is it like easy to do or do u have to pull the whole pad thing off?
Life would have been so much easier for Greenough with one of these! I’m off to Amazon one…
omg shreddddddd